BetterLateThan

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by BetterLateThan 12y ago
>> finding (and keeping) a profitable niche is hard ...which is why evolution will have to regain control. Governments are antinatural in their obsession with increasing the number of citizens - not healthy, prodctive, citizens, but S
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by BetterLateThan 12y ago
This will be getting worse unless people disconnect themselves from the system that allows things like this to happen. By "disconnect" I mean secessio plebis - either physical with a move out of $this_jurisdiction, or economic, wh
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by BetterLateThan 12y ago
The problem with the West is that you guys _believe_ the law to be the same for those at the top and at the bottom of the pyramid. Russians, on the contrary, _know_ that equality belongs on the same bookshelf with unicorns. That the governm
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by BetterLateThan 12y ago
1. Uninstalled. 2. In 2014, every business faces the choice to either quit businessing or collaborate with the government. This choice will soon trickle to individuals, if Rome, Germany and the USSR are any reference.
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by BetterLateThan 12y ago
Matthew 19:17 - "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God".
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by BetterLateThan 12y ago
Mr Stoyte broke the silence. 'How long do you figure it would take before a person went like that?' he said in a slow, hesitating voice. 'I mean, it wouldn't happen at once ... there'd be a long time while a person
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by BetterLateThan 13y ago
>> the myth you are an individual completely separate from the world outside Aren't you? You were born alone, you will die alone, nobody can live your life for you, nobody can share the responsibility for your decisions. You are
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by BetterLateThan 13y ago
Anyone interested in the mind-bending history of moistening the West in general and California in particular just enough to be advertised as paradise may want to do themselves a favor and read "Cadillac Desert": http://
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by BetterLateThan 13y ago
>> subvert the free market by manufacturers Whatever people (in this case, manufacturers) do IS free market. Regulation is subversion.
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by BetterLateThan 13y ago
Sounds like Canada more than it doesn't.
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by BetterLateThan 13y ago
Doesn't measuring BitCoin in dollars kinda beat the purpose of BitCoin?
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by BetterLateThan 13y ago
You don't sound like a Russian. You don't think like a Russian. You don't know like a Russian. Russians don't smile because any person who smiles to a stranger either wants to sell something or is insane. Smiles are for
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by BetterLateThan 13y ago
>> so strong that governments will become incapable... Sounds like you expect governments to be ashamed of what they do once the plans become public. It's not about shame. It's about the power to persist until the goal is re
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by BetterLateThan 13y ago
Google has been using regular people like you and me as scouts for years. We all have certain patterns and interests and the order of priorities - and Google know them all. They are the sysadmin of the Internet. If we save a link, share a l
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by BetterLateThan 13y ago
> Well, the taxes/theft thing isn't quite appropriate. True. Taxes are armed robbery with a threat of kidnapping and confinement. They have nothing to do with theft.
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by BetterLateThan 13y ago
That's bankerese for "Brace yourself".
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by BetterLateThan 13y ago
It is impossible to overmistrust the State. If you could imagine the lows they will go to, you'd be working for them by now.
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by BetterLateThan 13y ago
Because intelligence is detrimental to survival: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16297-intelligent-sold...
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by BetterLateThan 13y ago
> Americans seriously need to band together Not Americans - individuals. All wars and the state itself, which is war, are various manifestations of the same conflict: individuals vs the mob. There are no Americans, gay, feminists, unem
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by BetterLateThan 13y ago
> It is hard to know where this is leading. Is it? Tacitus, Livy, Suetonius, Marcellinus, Plutarch say otherwise. TLDR: As long as citizens think they have something to lose [1], their fear will be used against them by the Praetorian gua
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by BetterLateThan 13y ago
No cowards = no rulers. Move on, citizens, this was an non-existent unauthorized thought that you haven't seen.
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by BetterLateThan 13y ago
There are enough people to whom it keeps sounding like "We'll keep enabling you if you keep putting up with the status quo."
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by BetterLateThan 14y ago
They all look human on the way up. The moment they are voted into legislative and/or executive branch under current "democracy", they will become a part of the Status Quo. Which operates on the following rule: Why bother about the spokes wh
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by BetterLateThan 14y ago
Cool looking sliders can't be moved in Opera 12.12 / Win7
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by BetterLateThan 14y ago
> Let's just ignore the fact that MS has a development centre in Vancouver Wow, MS centre! It will save us all. And they don't have MS centers anywhere else, right? Vancouver here. * All of Canada has as many my profile job openings as
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by BetterLateThan 14y ago
I did this: * Ignored the caller's pressure and sense of urgency. * Repeated every phrase she told me with a question mark added: "My computer is slow, eh?" * Every time she said "Yes", I asked my own question: "What department do you say y
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by BetterLateThan 14y ago
Signed up, submitted a few reviews, received a few. So far so good. It would be great if I could: - see the history of the reviews I submitted; - contact reviewers of my site; Time spent on a review isn't very helpful. I got distracted by k